Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/07/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I second that. I have lived in Buffalo for a combined two years, and have an attachment to the area, partly because I met my wife at the university there. Upstate NY is indeed a beautiful place, and as a bonus, you have Canada next door :-) Nathan Lawrence Zeitlin wrote: > For foreign LUG members: New York State is no more like New York City > than Paris is like France. Once you get 20 or so miles outside of a > metropolitan area the state becomes low density rural farmland. Most > population centers followed the waterways of two centuries ago. New > York City is the main seaport, with towns and villages located up the > Hudson River, the Erie Canal, Lake Ontario and Lake Champlain. Most of > the rest of the state is wild. In fact the Adirondack Park, three > times the size of Yellowstone, is classified as "permanently wild." It > may not be as spectacular as Yellowstone but it has its own rugged > beauty. Painters of America's first art movement, the Hudson River > School, were no dopes. They spent a lifetime depicting the magesty of > the Hudson Valley and the Adirondacks. So if you visit New York, > forget the fleshpots of Gotham, rent a car and drive up the Hudson to > Lake Champlain, then follow the waterside highway across the state > ending at Niagra Falls. Bow in the direction of Rochester as you drive > by and take a lot of pictures. > > Larry Z > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > -- Nathan Wajsman Almere, The Netherlands *Opportunistic Image Acquisition* General photography: http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.nathanfoto.com http://www.greatpix.eu Picture-A-Week: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Seville photography: http://www.fotosevilla.com Stock photography: http://www.alamy.com/search-results.asp?qt=wajsman http://myloupe.com/home/found_photographer.php?photographer=507 Prints for sale: http://www.photodeluge.com Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog SUPPORT FREEDOM OF SPEECH, BUY DANISH PRODUCTS!